Tales From The Underground
Tales From The Underground
Artist: KilotonCountry: CanadaLabels: War Vellum / Wolfkult ReligionFormats: Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 Presented in chronological order, ‘World War V’ is a compilation of the demos and four EPs that Canadian act Kiloton amassed over the last year or so.…
Artist: Temple Of The Beast Country: USA Label: Iron Bonehead Productions Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Admittedly, I have missed the self-titled demo that Temple Of The Beast had released two years ago, but in my own…
Artist: Spectral WoundCountry: CanadaLabel: Profound Lore RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 It’s already been three years since Spectral Wound unleashed ‘A Diabolic Thirst’ upon the world, the sophomore record of the band filled with blistering Canadian Black…
Artist: Wirdha / NachtheemCountry: Sweden / The NetherlandsLabel: Tour de GardeFormats: Split TapeYear: 2024 On this Tour de Garde released Split Tape, Wirdha and Nachtheem found each other. Wirdha is a new entity with anonymous Black Metal veterans from Sweden.…
Artist: Goat Semen Country: Peru Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: 12″ EP / Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2024 When it comes to Latin American Extreme Metal there are obviously a lot of bands that laid down the foundations…
Artist: AvmaktCountry: NorwayLabel: Peaceville RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2024 The musical direction of Darkthrone may not excite me nearly as much these days as it once did. But it’s hard to deny that Fenriz has some musical taste. And when…
Artist: DeimhalCountry: FinlandLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2024 Last year we saw the appearance of Deimhal on the symphonic Black Metal stage, launching into the scene with their EP ‘The Grand Gathering’. Featuring multiple members of the band Catamenia, the first…
Artist: Bloodsoaked Visions / Strigoic Curse Country: United Kingdom / Romania Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Split EP Year: 2024 This digitally released split EP combines the music of two one-man bands, both of which have featured on these pages before.…
Artist: Bloodsoaked Visions Country: United Kingdom Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Earlier this year the one-man act Bloodsoaked Visions, part of the English Black Swarm circle (together with acts such as Blót and Snares Of Impurity), released a…
Artist: HornaCountry: FinlandLabel: W.T.C. ProductionsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 At the end of the 18th century, the German romantic poet Novalis (born Georg Friedrich Philipp Freiherr von Hardenberg) finished his poem ‘Hymnen an Die Nacht’. Inspired by the…
Artist: Obscure Anachronism / Horna Country: Austria / Finland Label: W.T.C. Productions Formats: Split LP Year: 2024 Horna, undoubtedly one the ultimate stalwarts of Finnish Black Metal, is not quite a stranger to the concept of split releases. I quickly…
Artist: Sokeus Country: Finland Label: Breath Of Pestilence Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 With the previous demo ‘Immortal Wisdom’, this Finnish band already showed some fascination for ancient beliefs, philosophy and sages. Those themes are embodied again on ‘Ekpyrosis’,…
Artist: Arbor Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 With a steady stream of quality releases, including a handful of demos, an EP and one full-length album, one-man band Arbor has garnered some world wide praise for its alluring raw…
Artist: Funeral Vomit Country: Colombia Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2024 Before the Xtreem Music-released ‘Monumental Putrescence’ from late December last year, the Colombians of Funeral Vomit released a demo, two splits and a self-titled…
Artist: Owl Country: The Netherlands Label: Zwaertgevegt Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Earlier, in spring this year, Jeroen Putman released a new album with Owl. Although I interviewed him for his previous record, the existence of this new work had…
Despite the Belgian Black Metal scene having set my heart racing more than once in recent years, those bands were mostly roughly in the same category. Bands such as Forbidden Temple, Moenen Of Xezbeth, Perverted Ceremony, Walghinge, Crypts Of Wallachia,…
Artist: Cachot d’Effroi / Wolftower Country: France / Finland Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Split Cassette Tape Year: 2024 On this Narbentage Produktionen released split tape two of the most interesting bands out of today’s European Black Metal scene team up…
Artist: Sepulchral Conjurator Country: Ecuador Label: Profaner Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Sepulchral Conjurator is a relatively new band who deliver their first demo with ‘Ceremony Ritual I’. This already happened late last year with a first self-released on…
With ‘Diabolatry’, released at the end of 2023, one of the standard bearers of Singapore’s Extreme Metal scene made itself heard again. While a new album from Infernal Execrator always guarantees quality and musical integrity, recent years have seen an…
Artist: Concrete Winds Country: Finland Label: Sepulchral Voice Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 After Vorum was laid to rest in 2018, drummer Mikko Josefsson and guitarist/vocalist Jonatan Johansson must have looked at each other and…
Artist: Sadomortuary / In League With Satan Country: Italy Label: Non Resurgam Records Formats: Split Tape Year: 2024 This split cassette tape is quick to follow up on Sadomortuary’s first full-length album that was released only two months prior. This…
Artist: Sadomortuary Country: Italy Label: Unpure Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 After a couple of demos (also available on a US-released compilation CD) and a split with Nameless Tomb, ‘Inflicting Litanies Of Torment’ is Sadomortuary’s first full-length album. In just…
Artist: MergellandCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Merg & Been / Wolfkult ReligionFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2024 Before Wurgilnõ there was Mergelland. Consanguineus’ musical dedication to the region of Limburg started in 2020 and resulted in an EP and a single. Work started on…
Artist: Smyrtonos / Skol Country: Bulgaria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Split Year: 2024 While this split release is Smyrtonos’ fifth release of 2024, the partner on this split is rather new. Skol was founded last year and digitally released its…
Artist: Cantique Lépreux Country: Canada Label: Eisenwald Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 Anyone who has been compelled by the grandeur of the Metal Noir Quebecois scene will most likely have stumbled upon the back catalogue of Cantique Lépreux. It might be a bit…
Artist: GotthammerCountry: CanadaLabel: Anti-Human Productions / WolfKult ReligionFormats: 7” EP / Cassette EP / CD EPYear: 2024 The godslaying sonic barbarians of Gotthammer return to the stage with their first EP, following a couple of demos and a split with…
Artist: KerkerengelCountry: FinlandLabel: Werewolf RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2024 With Kerkerengel we witness the birth of another band led by Lord Vrăjitor, the mastermind behind the likes of Warmoon Lord, Old Sorcery and Argenthorns. But while epic and symphonic elements form parts…
Artist: Svrm Country: Ukraine Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 As stated in a previous Svrm review, I wouldn’t claim that I have heard the entire back catalogue of this Ukrainian band. But it was clear to me that…
Artist: Necromoon Country: Poland Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Within the course of two month Polish Necromoon has released their debut album, an EP and a split. Whether they are going to keep up this insane work…
Artist: Witchtrap Country: Colombia Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 The past few weeks I have featured quite a few Latin American bands, a continent that has a metal scene that is a…
Artist: CastrivenianCountry: BrazilLabel: Wolfkult ReligionFormats: Cassete tapeYear: 2024 Castrivenian is a relatively new entity from Brazil that was formed earlier in 2024. The band released their first demo ‘S.H.T.I.’ earlier in April, but with fires of creativity burning brightly, immediately…
Artist: TaivalCountry: FinlandLabel: Wolfspell RecordsFormats: Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 ‘Journey to Beyond’ is the debut album of Taival, which saw its release in the early months of the year courtesy of the respected Wolfspell Records. The album is adorned…
Artist: Prehistoric War Cult / Dolchstoß Country: Germany Label: AbArt Corruption / Fucking Kill Records Formats: Split 7″ EP / Split Cassette EP Year: 2024 Although the title of this split might suggest that we are having a Manowar tribute…
Artist: Absolute Key & Hail Conjurer Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 It is not the first time that the creative Finnish Black Metal extraordinaire Hail Conjurer and the mind-boggling dark noise metal scoundscapist Absolute Key join…
Artist: Necromoon Country: Poland Label: Anti-Human Productions Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2024 Following on from the recently released ‘War With Tyranny’ album, Canadian Anti-Human Productions not only releases a split tape with Tarokulith but also this new EP. Six new…
Artist: Tarokulith / Necromoon Country: Canada / Poland Label: Anti-Human Productions Formats: Split Tape Year: 2024 As the title already suggests, this Anti-Human Productions release combines Tarokulith and Necromoon, two entities that like to thumb their noses at things like…
Artist: Infernaculum Country: Spain Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 The one and only demo of the Spanish Infernaculum, ‘Esperma De Satanás’, was actually already released in the very first month of 2023 in a small quantity of…
Artist: In Aphelion Country: The Netherlands / Sweden Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 With ‘Reaperdawn’ the Swedish/Dutch alliance of In Aphelion delivers their second full-length album, and while the band is regarded as a new band…
Artist: Torturium Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 The first half of the 00’s were definitely Arttu “War Torech” Pulkkinen’s most prolific years, not only did he record the guitars on an impressive part of Satanic Warmaster’s back…
Artist: Vulvacult Country: Argentina Label: Profaner Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 While the band already released a full-length album and a couple of (more recent) split releases, the band is now presenting a cassette tape with the title of…
Artist: Goatscrote Country: Canada Label: Unpure Records Formats: CD Year: 2024 With a name that in itself leaves little to the imagination, the “logo” and covers that Canadian Goatscrote serve themselves with make it even easier to imagine what this…
Artist: Pillagery Country: Canada Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Pillagery, a new Canadian Black/Death Metal outfit, is presenting its first feat in the form of this 4-track demo tape that (almost) simultaneously saw the darkness of day with…
Artist: Knüth Country: Russia Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital demo Year: 2024 After 11 demos and splits in less than four years, Knüth, a Russian Black Metal duo, fell silent for a couple of years, only to revive the project in…
Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: The Final Return Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2024 Hot on the heals of the band’s second album, the Black Noise Committee released ‘Autocombustión’, we are also presented with this tape release that compiles both…
Artist: Warslaughter Country: Spain Label: Black Noise Committee / Headsplit Records / Ixiol Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape Year: 2024 After two demos and a full-length album in about three years the band decided to throw in the towel…
Artist: Acid Mass Country: USA Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Yes, I have said it before and I will probably mention it again in the future: the advantage of having a one-man band is that you can crank…
Artist: Schrecken / Erzfeynd Country: Germany Label: Urtod Void Formats: Split LP Year: 2024 This split between two German Black Metal bands was actually already released digitally by both bands on their respective Bandcamp pages in November 2023 and it…
Artist: Nebiros Country: Colombia Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: LP Year: 2024 Earlier this spring Nuclear War Now! Productions reissued Nebiros’ first full-length album from 1996, an album that although it was released much later than other classics from…
Artist: Aznaitin Country: Aznaitin Label: Morken Tapes Formats: Demo tape Year: 2024 Aznaitin, an anonymous Spanish entity from the Andalusian region, is a new act entering the Spanish Black Metal firmament. This self-titled demo tape is the band’s first feat,…
Artist: Mayhemic Country: Chile Label: Sepulchral Voice Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 The “Toba catastrophe theory” posits that the evolution of the human race was significantly influenced by an eruption of the Toba super volcano…